Victory For 911 Victim
By Mary Shultz
Monday, February 28, 2005
Chicago attorney Robert D. Kreisman of the Kreisman Law
Offices has obtained a $2.059 million award for a survivor of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
Kreisman worked for Byron D. Olson, 52, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a Wall Street
consultant who was in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center when a hijacked plane
slammed into it.
Olson was waiting for an elevator on the ground floor when
the plane struck the building. The elevator cable snapped in an explosion which
crashed the car to the ground. The thrust hurled Olson into a marble stanchion.
He suffered an eye injury and lost hearing in an ear. He also suffered extensive
knee and ankle injuries that have required several surgeries and effectively
finished his career, Kreisman said.
Kreisman appeared before the Sept. 11 Victims' Compensation Fund on May 18. In
an order dated Tuesday and received Thursday, June 16 the fund ordered that
Olson be paid $2,059,262.
